Mar 25 Watch Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Corleone Correlations Syria faced escalating unrest as soldiers opened fire on demonstrators in several cities. Continue watching
Mar 25 Watch Syrian Troops Fire on Demonstrators in Several Cities The Syrian government faced its strongest challenge in years as protests escalated and government troops opened fire on demonstrators in several cities. In the city of Daraa, where protests grew all week, witnesses said up to 50,000 people flooded the… Continue watching
Mar 25 Report: Time for a ‘Diplomatic Surge’ in Afghanistan By Stella Clingmon Afghan President Hamid Karzai (Shah Marai /AFP/Getty Images) A group of 15 prominent former diplomats from nine countries says the time is now to begin a diplomatic push for a solution in Afghanistan that includes negotiations between the Afghan government… Continue reading
Mar 25 The Panic Button: High-Tech Protection for Human Rights Investigators By Spencer Michels There's a panic button included in a software program provided by a Palo Alto, Calif.-based nonprofit called Benetech. The program itself is designed to safely store data about torture, murder, killings and other human rights abuses in countries around… Continue reading
Mar 25 Poetry as a Weapon of War in Afghanistan By Tom LeGro According to two new reports by a leading Afghanistan watcher at the Naval Postgraduate School, "the Taliban blow us away" in getting its message out to the Afghan public by using poetry and music -- means the United States does… Continue reading
Mar 25 Egypt ‘Quickly’ Moves Toward Democracy By Larisa Epatko Egypt's march toward democracy -- from protests in January to President Hosni Mubarak's resignation in February and constitutional changes in March -- was more like a sprint. Continue reading
Mar 25 Gunfire Reported in Protests in Syria, Government Promises Reforms By News Desk Hundreds of Syrians march from the Omayyed mosque in Damascus' Old City toward Souk Al-Hamadiyeh street on Friday, chanting: 'Daraa is Syria' and 'We will sacrifice ourselves for Syria.' (AFP/Getty Images) Protesters in the Southern Syrian city of Daraa… Continue reading
Mar 25 Watch William Dobson on Egypt’s ‘Quick’, ‘Dynamic’ Process Author William Dobson explains what comes next in Egypt after constitutional changes. Continue watching
Mar 25 NATO to Control No-Fly Zone, Explosions Near Tripoli 2:30 p.m. ET | In a briefing with reporters at the Pentagon on Friday, Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, director of the military's Joint Staff, said there was "not much of a change from yesterday" where contested cities, including Ajdabiya, were… Continue reading
Mar 24 Watch Dignity, Justice Among Goals of Yemeni Protesters Seeking President’s Ouster Judy Woodruff talks to Nadia Abdulaziz Al-Sakkaf, editor and publisher of the Yemen Times, about the ongoing protests calling for the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Continue watching